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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bull Connor's Birmingham.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to MLK in "The Sword That Heals," a southern state police officer is rarely punished for what?
(a) Abusing a Negro.
(b) Not going to work.
(c) Sleeping on the job.
(d) Jailing an innocent man or woman.

2. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," what does MLK say the Negro had been deeply disappointed over?
(a) The complacency of the courts.
(b) The barring of Negros from eating at lunch counters.
(c) The slow pace of school desegregation.
(d) The ignorance of the white leaders.

3. MLK states that the Negro knows when he goes to jail it not only means confinement, but what else does it mean?
(a) To expect a severe beating.
(b) That you won't know where your next meal will come from.
(c) That your cause did not go unnoticed.
(d) Liberty.

4. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?
(a) Why people are different.
(b) To be locked up.
(c) To be carried on their shoulders.
(d) Why they don't like them.

5. In the efforts of "Project C", what were the first targets?
(a) Public parks.
(b) Lunch counters.
(c) Merchants.
(d) City hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the sightless singer that MLK mentions "held a commanding position in our ranks"?

2. Who did MLK hope would have been in the running of the run-off vote?

3. In "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963," MLK states that the Negro protesters were advised to call off their efforts and put all their energy into what?

4. MLK states that a person would conclude that Birmingham had been in what type of slumber and had been trapped for decades?

5. What book was MLK autographing copies of in "The Negro Revolution-Why 1963?"

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